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GERMAYNES. Germanicus, 15 B.C.-A.D. 19, was the son of Drusus and Antonia. His maternal uncle Tiberius adopted him in A.D. 4. Suetonius says that it was the general opinion that Germanicus possessed all the highest qualities of body and mind. In A.D. 19, while traveling in Syria, he suddenly fell ill, and he was convinced that Piso, governor of Syria, had poisoned him. He was thirty-four years old at his death (Suetonius, Caius Caligula i-iii).

Gaius Caesar, "Germanynes" son, accused Canius of secret knowledge of a conspiracy against him, and Canius replied that if he had known, Gaius would not have known, Bo I, Prosa 4.180-185. [Canyus: Cesar3]

Germaynes is the ME genitive case, Bo I, Prosa 4.181.


Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, ed. and trans. J.C. Rolfe, I: 404-407.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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